Word: aron
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...orgy? In Boston? Er-, ah-, well now, everyone muttered, that would take a little doing. But doing is Sarah Caldwell's speciality, and last week she led her Opera Company of Boston in the U.S. premiere of Schoenberg's epic Moses and Aron. For raw power, fireworks and daring, it was a spectacle that made Bunker Hill look like the Tea Party...
...daring to schedule the opera in the first place. Big, sprawling and complex, Moses and Aron demands a range of musical and technical expertise that few opera companies could or would attempt. For one thing, the libretto calls for "an orgy of sexual excess," in which herds of animals are slaughtered and naked men and women run riot. Composer Schoenberg himself ruefully concluded that it was probably "undoable...
Contributors have always ranked among France's most eminent men of letters; today they range from Political Analyst Raymond Aron to Moviemaker Rene Clair to Biologist Jean Rostand to Play wright Jean Anouilh...
...RaymoM Aron, D. Let., French author and university professor. You carry on and exemplify the venerable French tradition of the intellectual man of action...
...Most chemical reactions," says Caltech Chemical Physicist Aron Kuppermann, "are unholy messes." The neat formulas and precise equations of the textbooks may be all right as far as they go, but they present an incomplete picture of what is really "a large number of processes, some of which are not fully understood...